Socialism: The new Religion of the New Liberal Left

The New political Left's revulsion with president Trump has caused them to pursue Socialism with a religious fervor.

Submitted: July 05, 2018

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Socialism: The new Religion of the New Liberal Left

The religiously unaffiliated have voted for the Democratic Party’s candidate by an average of more than 68% in the last five presidential elections. White, born again/evangelical Christens have
voted for the Republican Party’s candidate and average of 78% during this period. The battle lines are clearly drawn. While the Christians have remained a constant average of more than 25% of the
electorate, the unaffiliated have grown from 9% to 15% during this period. For many of them radical Socialist politics has replaced religion.

This 15%’s hatred of President Trump can only be compared to the hatred between the Palestinians and Israel, between Muslims and Jews, a religious war. They believe that their way is the
only right way, and there is no need or reason to discuss it with anyone. If you disagree you are not only wrong, you are evil. You are in Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables”. You are
“racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamaphobic” That statement opened the door for the radical left. Now anything can be said about you and done to you. You can be called a raciest, a
Nazi, a homophobic, or any expletive that comes to mind. They can spit on you, harass you in restaurants, at the movies, in your home or anywhere else they see you.

Formerly reasonable people, friends, relatives and strangers become unhinged at the mention of the president’s name. If you say something favorable about him you are immediately demonized by them.
He said this and he said that they will scream at you. When you ask them what he has actually done that they don’t like, they just scream about more things that he said. Apparently, what he
says is more important to them than what he has done. He has spoken out against their new religion, socialism. Berny Sanders, who considers himself to be a “democratic socialist,” is the current
god of this religion, and his presidential platform is their bible. These are some of the things that his presidential platform said he wanted to accomplish:

11.A “Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act,” which would break up the big banks .

12.Give every worker in America a guaranteed “at least twelve weeks of paid family and medical leave

.This is his “estimated costs” of some of his plans:

Plan

Cost

Funding

Revenue

Rebuild America Act

$1 trillion
/ 5 years

Taxing corporate offshore income

$1 trillion / 10 years

College for All

$75 billion /year

Wall Street speculation tax

Social Security Expansion Act

$1.2 trillion / 10 years

Remove payroll tax cap for earnings above $250 K

$1.2 trillion / 10 years

Employ Young Americans Now Act

$5.5 billion
/ 2 years

Closing carried interest loophole

$15.6 billion / 10 years

Offer 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave

Additional 0.2% Payroll Tax

$319 billion
/ 10 years

Keep Our Pension Promises Act

$29 billion / 10 years

Closing tax loopholes on estate taxes and artwork

$29 billion / 10 years

Responsible Estate Tax Act

$214 billion
/10 years

End Polluter Welfare Act

$110 billion /10 years

Ends tax breaks and subsidies for fossil fuel companies

$135 billion
/10 years

Medicare for All Health Care Plan

$1.38 trillion / year

Paid for by a 6.2 percent income-based health care premium paid by employers, a 2.2 percent income-based premium paid by households, progressive income tax rates, taxing capital gains and
dividends the same as income from work, limiting tax deductions for the rich, adjusting the estate tax, and savings from health tax expenditures.

This is what the total cost comes to: more than $157 trillion ($15.7 trillion a year average!) spent over a ten year period.

cost multiplied by

years =

total cost

Rebuild America

$1,000,000,000,000

5

$5,000,000,000,000

college for all

$75,000,000,000

10

$750,000,000,000

Social Security expansion

$1,200,000,000,000

10

$12,000,000,000,000

Employ young Americans Now

$5,000,000,000

2

$10,000,000,000

Keep our pension promise Act

$29,000,000,000

10

$290,000,000,000

End polluter welfare Act

$110,000,000,000

10

$1,100,000,000,000

Medicare for all Act

1.38,000,000,000,000

10

13.8,000,000,000,000

total

$157,150,000,000,000

All of this is just an “estimate” of the cost of the ten year Socialist agenda. The actual costs would be much higher. There is an old saying that an elephant is a mouse built by the government.
This would bankrupt the country, which is exactly what the Cloward-Piven strategy created in 1966 was designed to do. This is an implementation of that strategy.

It was outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven and called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a
crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty". A guaranteed income for everyone is a part of
today’s political discourse.

Berny Sander’s program could very likely have that effect. It would destroy capitalism by creating an overwhelming demand for government services, one that would be impossible to fulfill, and
therefore cause a crisis and economic collapse. It would make society afraid of poor people. Their plan believed that the poor people would then revolt and demand a welfare state. That is the
ultimate goal of the radical Left.

Consider their current agenda. They want to abolish ICE and have open borders. They would do this by abolishing immigration and customs enforcement. This would bring millions of people into
this country that would be very dependent upon existing and the proposed new government benefits. They want to guarantee government jobs, free college and free health care for everyone. The
implementation of these programs would first cause run-away inflation which would lead to the devaluation of the dollar and the destruction of our economy. This would cause a mass demand for
government intervention to “do something”. The government would take control of industry and issue “the New dollar” at the cost of one hundred or more current dollars. Your savings would be wiped
out!

If this seems like hysterical ranting, consider this. In New York city’s borough of Queens, a candidate that called for the abolishment of ICE and a guaranteed job for every American just
defeated a Democrat that has been in congress for thirteen years and was a top contender to become the next speaker of the house. She had been a former organizer for the Bernie Sanders presidential
campaign. Her opponent vastly out spent her, but she still won more than 57% of the vote. She is a native of the Bronx and a Latina in a Queens and Bronx district that is majority-minority, a fact
she emphasized repeatedly on the trail against her opponent, who is white. Senator Elizabeth Warren, a woman often said to be planning to run for president in 2020, has called for the disbandment
of ICE, along with many other prominent Democrats.

You only have to look as far as Socialist Venezuela to see what could happen here. The following is part of a report published in Forbes about that country:

“In 2018 Venezuela is struggling though the hemisphere's worst economic problems. Inflation is rapidly spiraling towards crisis levels and everyday economic activity continues to be severely
encumbered by a nonsensical system of currency controls. In 2018 Venezuela's GDP is expected to contract by double digits for the third straight consecutive year. Economic output in Venezuela fell
by 16% in 2016, 14% in 2017, and is expected to drop by 15% this year. Meanwhile, after jumping from 112% in 2015 to 2,400% last year, inflation in Venezuela is expected to hit five-digit levels in
2018.”

This is how it happened. The current dictator, Maduro , is following in his predecessor’s (Hugo Chávez) footsteps experimenting with socialism. Chávez is a legendary figure in Venezuela who
transformed the country’s political and economic landscape by nationalizing industries and funneling enormous amounts of government money into social programs. Only a few years ago Venezuela was a
very prosperous country. The economy of Venezuela was largely based on the petroleum sector and manufacturing. Revenue from petroleum exports accounted for more than 50% of the country's GDP and
roughly 95% of total exports. Venezuela was the sixth largest member of OPEC by oil production. From the 1950s to the early 1980s, the Venezuelan economy experienced a steady growth that attracted
many immigrants, with the nation enjoying the highest standard of living in Latin America. Now the citizens are rioting in the streets and being shot by their government!

This is typical of what happens to prosperous countries when the Socialist take control. When Hitler’s Nazi party (National Socialists) took control of Germany their currency became so worthless
that people used it to start fires in their fireplace. When England became Socialist it caused a “brain drain” as the most intelligent people fled the country.

Because of the New Left’s “religious” fervor they believe that anything they say or do is acceptable if it advances their cause. They know that very few in the news media will criticize them
for doing it. Thruout world history religious wars have been fought by groups with extreme beliefs about their religion. The current political war is the pseudo religion of Socialism against the
logical system of capitalism. Capitalism is not a perfect system, there is plenty of room for improvement, but it is the best system that has been devised at this time. It creates the most wealth
for the most people. It has enabled many small countries like Hong Cong, Israel, and South Korea to prosper. It has made the United States the wealthiest nation the world has ever had. There is no
good reason to change it to a disastrous Socialist Economy.

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Comments

First, I enjoyed the essay. Secondly, as a Democrat I agree with many of the points you gave for both sides. I do not agree with the socialism you describe, nor do I agree that capitalism is the best economic system. We do not have free markets and have not for a long time. We have globalisation and the WTO that makes more threats and restrictions than any US agency. As for the guaranteed wage, the tech companies and economists support it in lieu of jobs leaving the market and America. It is a poor excuse for offshoring. Trump is trying to make things more fair for the American worker with his tariffs, yet the knee-jerk reaction from Democrats is negative. The former party of the worker would rather see offshoring of jobs so immigrants can take what is left.

The reactions from my party to Trump are ludicrous. He simply picked up the slack of Democrat's who dropped the support of the worker. They will lose again if they continue their immigration strategy.

I supported Bernie..but not Hillary. I do not support open borders and I support Trump's stance. Many of us think this constant bickering and hatefulness from the Democrats is incivility and sour grapes. We must choose a party to vote for, but we can disagree with the platforms of both. We are not one-dimensional beings.

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Fri, July 6th, 2018 11:25am

Thank you for your comments. As I said in the essay, capitalism is not perfect. But socialism is not the answer. It creates many more problems than it solves. Capitalism been modified in recent decades and is more inclusive now that ever before. If given the time to do so, it will eventually make our country and the world a better place to live in.

Interesting article. However, there is one basic flaw in the penultimate paragraph. You mentioned the Nazi party as being socialist, but although the name National Socialist suggest there's a form of socialism at play there, in reality they had nothing to do with socialism whatsoever, making this a rather awkward example for your argument.

If you notice many European Countries are moving to the right from previous socialist standing. Taxes and immigration are the main reasons...the trouble with the govt should provide for everything idea is that we are the govt money scource...capitolists pay for the programs. Obviously everyone cant be on the dole, someone has to pay for it. This country rewards quitters and penalizes those who try....It comes down to whether you want to decide how your money is spent,or do you want wasteful govt,of the $1500 hammer, to spend it for you.